Father Agheasmie pulled his hood over his head and slowly closed the door. He hurried down the stairs and immersed into the outside darkness, rushing to the gambling house near the square, the only one open 24 hours. Before entering, he crossed himself and put a mask over his mouth. In a corner, dressed in the same way, Reverend Grătarie filled in a notebook. He sat down next to him and whispered: At Liverpool versus Tottenham write 3 plus, Father, on a single ticket, because the odds are 3,65. Damn it if I'm not going to be a hit.
(Translated by Tania Diniță / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In June 2023, the group has 11,430 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, Luchian Abel, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
